"It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game."
"The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It's perfect circularity."
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Source: Interview with Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. December 27, 2009.
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